Word: blistering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unhappily for those who had hoped to solve the problem of the old royalist army by this method, the Hungarian duel seldom ends fatally. A scratch on the arm, a blister on the heel, is considered ample satisfaction for the demands of honor. Indeed, to badly injure one's opponent is shocking bad taste, for it prevents his attending the drinking party which usually winds up these affairs. We thus have the example of a nation -- on the brink of economic and social disruption -- playing at Lords and Ladies until tea-time. They seem to have quite forgotten that when...
...Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa accepts with alacrity the challenge of the Harvard Chapter to meet on the baseball field for a test of strength, endurance and wits. We have already begun to blister our lily-white hands and arouse disquieting pains in our stalwart right arms...